Student Placements

Placements and Internships

Placement and internship opportunities for students are available within medical research and are commonly advertised directly on company websites. For inspiration we have compiled a list below of companies who offer placement schemes. Please note this list is not exhaustive.

Companies offering student placements or internships often establish strong links with Universities in the UK and opt to communicate details of upcoming placements to university students directly, for example Bath and Cardiff Universities.

Applications for full year placements usually open in November and often involve an assessment day typically including a competency interview, technical interview and a group exercise.

If you are interested in undertaking a placement and have any questions, or are an organisation that offers placements and would like to add your details to our website then please contact us.

Click on the profiles below to read about a couple of placement student's experiences.

Opportunities are advertised during September and October for placement years starting the following summer. Adverts are placed on the website when available. Please search for Associate Statistical Programmer/Assistant Statistician - Industrial Placement. Visit the website...

Roche is also launching this year a Summer Internship scheme for PhD students

IQVIA

IQVIA offer one-year placements to BSc students (i.e. students on sandwich courses who have completed two years of their degree).

IQVIA usually contact universities within an hour or so of Reading, but are open to any applicants. Visit the website...

GSK

Type of Placement: Student Statisticians, Student Programmers

Length: 12 months

GSK offer placements for both programmers and statisticians. Applicants should be studying for a degree related to mathematics or statistics. Visit the website...

Amgen

Type of Placement: Student Statisticians, Student Programmers

Length: 12 months

Amgen offers 12 month placements in biostatistics in the Centre for Design and Analysis. Placements are for students who have completed the first two years of their undergraduate degree in a maths, statistics or related subject. Placements are advertised via Cogent Skills. Visit the website...

Pfizer

Type of Placement: Student Statisticians, Student Programmers

Length: 1- 2 weeks

Pre-requisite: Currently working towards a degree in maths, statistics, computing, science or related subject. Visit the website...

UCB

Type of Placement: Student Statistician

Length: 12 months (September start date)

Pre-requisite: Currently in your 2nd year of a BSc with a strong background in mathematics/statistics.

Future Events

MCP-Mod (Multiple Comparisons & Modelling) is a popular statistical methodology for model-based design and analysis of dose finding studies. This webinar will describe the theory behind MCP-Mod (plus extensions), and how to implement it within available software. Pantelis Vlachos (Cytel) will provide a brief introduction to the methodology and illustrate the MCP-MoD capabilities in EAST 6.5. Saswati Saha (University of Brehem) will discuss new variations and alternatives to MCP-Mod and show how to implement them in R. Neal Thomas (Pfizer) will present further technical details of MCP-Mod by evaluating the method using results from least squares linear model theory.